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Entertaining Complaining: Kyle Kinane’s “Loose in Chicago”

The Windy City–bred, LA-based comedian takes on the joys of concealed carry and Laotian honeymoons in his new Comedy Central special.

October 14, 2016

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Art & Culture
East of Feedin’: The EastSide Food Festival Offers a Slice of Home, Wherever That May Be

For the third edition of the LA foodie takeover, a friendly frenzy was prompted in the partakers’ own personal paradise.

October 04, 2016

Clipping

Breaking: Clipping

Normal is never normal for the LA experimental hip-hop trio.

September 20, 2016
Art & CultureStaff Picks
Download All: Love (+ Radio) Hurts

FLOOD’s Download All pays tribute to the cult obsessions, strange thrills, and hidden rewards of Earth’s newest and most underestimated artform: the podcast.

September 08, 2016

Grace Jones at FYF / photo by Rozette Rago

Events
Fuck (Yeah to) Everything: FYF Fest 2016

A good music festival for a bad year.

August 29, 2016

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster of The Best Show / photo by Mindy Tucker

Art & CultureStaff Picks
Download All: “The Best Show” Is the Stuff You Need

Download All pays tribute to the cult obsessions, strange thrills, and hidden rewards of Earth’s newest and most underestimated artform: the podcast.

August 03, 2016

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in “The Nice Guys”

Film + TVReviews
“The Nice Guys”: A Crowe and a Gosling Walk into a Bar

While it searches for its heart, the banter and beatings give Shane Black’s action-comedy its wings.

May 20, 2016
Film + TV
He Said, She Said: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Two of our film critics take on the latest installment in the intergalactic space opera in the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: the Gmail G-chat.

December 21, 2015
Art & CultureReviews
Ten-Dollar Words, Plus Interest: “Hamilton” on Broadway

Believe your ears: the musical “Hamilton” really is an American dream.

November 06, 2015

Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies

Film + TVReviews
War of the Words: “Bridge of Spies” is All Talk—And That’s a Good Thing

Spielberg skips espionage thrills to focus on the drama found in decency

October 19, 2015

Chris Pratt in Jurassic World

Film + TVReviews
Worlds Apart: Returning to the Island for “Jurassic World”

The long-awaited update to the Jurassic franchise is less theory, more chaos.

June 15, 2015

Jon Hamm as Don Draper – Mad Men _ Season 7, Episode 14 – Photo Credit: Courtesy of AMC

Film + TVReviews
“Mad Men”: A Hilltop to Die On

How “Mad Men”’s finale found a billion-dollar harmony between its two warring cultures.

May 26, 2015

Film Name: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Copyright: © 2015 WV FILMS IV LLC AND RATPAC-DUNE ENTERTAINMENT LLC – U.S., CANADA,…

Film + TVReviews
Shifting Gears: “Mad Max: Fury Road”

The unexpected engine of “Mad Max: Fury Road”’s post-apocalyptic chase delivers a revolutionary thrill

May 15, 2015
EventsFilm + TV
LIVE: Things Get Slightly, Suitably Strange at the Theater at the Ace Hotel for The Music of David Lynch (4/1/15)

Collaborators, fans, and the beloved cult director himself took to the United Artists Theatre stage to raise awareness and funds on the tenth anniversary of the David Lynch Foundation.

April 03, 2015
Film + TVReviews
The Sexorcist: “It Follows”

Flaws and all, David Robert Mitchell’s indie horror flick follows its own instincts with style and scares.

March 27, 2015

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH: Will Forte as Phil Miller in the first half of the “Alive in Tucson/The Elephant…

Film + TVReviews
May “The Last Man” Win

Will Forte, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller’s post-apocalypse is just getting started.

March 06, 2015

What We Do in the Shadows press image

Film + TVReviews
“What We Do in the Shadows”: Bloody Funny

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s mockumentary continues the hip reclamation of vampires

March 04, 2015

J.K. Simmon, Damien Chazelle, and Miles Teller in WHIPLASH / photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics

Film + TV
Breaking: Damien Chazelle

The writer/director of the critical smash “Whiplash” taps into our fear (and love) of tyrannical mentors

February 18, 2015
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